In this Iraq, went on father Najim in his homily, “where car bombs multiply, where the abductions of priests are more and more frequent, where Christians are forced to pay taxes if they want to stay in their homes or in their faith, otherwise they are confiscated by the militiamen, where water and electricity are still missing, the only option is giving up on one’s roots and leave one’s homeland, thus increasing that migratory wave that is growing day after day”. After the “imposed and unfair” embargo and four years of "American occupation", stated the Chaldeian procurator, what remains is "only a sectarian and confessional Iraq, where Christians have no support, where there is no group defending their cause, where they have been left completely alone. This is a great historical, political and human injustice”. Father Ganni "is a martyr of this Chaldeian Church which is now suffering and bloodstained and which Pope Benedict calls the church of the ‘living martyrs’. His martyrdom must be a new dawn for the life and the future peace of Iraq. We need the Apostolic See to encourage the Iraqi Church and all Christians to be united. May the sacrifice of father Ganni be new, vital lifeblood for his community, for his Iraqi Church and for all the universal Church”.” ” ” “
